Quote by Juvenal

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

— Charles Caleb Colton

And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.

— Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had…

— Plutarch

“Such is the arithmetic of adventure, in which two and two no more make only four than that Euclid rules in the Universe of…

— William Bolitho

But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans,…

— Paullina Simons

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

— Sid Waddell

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

— Nikolai Gogol

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

— Mark Twain

“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer". - Milton.”

— John Milton

“The small Greek city-states could not understand what the organisation of a great empire and the movement of many thousands of men entailed: they…

— Ernle Bradford

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as…

— Bertolt Brecht